In the newly built Fengtian Hall in Luoyang, Zhu Yuanzhang formally summoned representatives of the gentry class from all over the world.
Starting from today, Lao Zhu was too lazy to continue pretending. He sat directly on the emperor's throne and met with representatives of all the famous families, including the Yuan family.
Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang like this, all the representatives of the aristocratic families, including Yuan Shao, looked very unhappy on their faces.
After all, the world is still nominally under the Han family, and they are still Han ministers, and Zhu Yuanzhang's move is undoubtedly a slap in the face of the royal family.
"We know what you are thinking right now!"
"I'm afraid half of the people want to kill us and be quick, right?" Zhu Yuanzhang squinted his eyes and stared at all the nobles below.
Seeing that no one answered, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but smile and continued: "Actually, to be honest, we have endured it for a long time. We conquered many planes before, and in every plane we just started killing people until they were scared.
until."
"Only in this world, we have been restrained since entering and have not gone on a killing spree."
"But don't think that we are really vegetarians!"
"When it comes to killing people, we are definitely better than all of you." Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at everyone below him with dazzling eyes. He didn't look back until everyone involuntarily lowered their heads.
"It's not that we don't dare to kill you, but we cherish your talents."
"Your world is very special. It is a third-level extraordinary world, but it has not formed a complete cultivation system, and almost all the extraordinary powers have been absorbed and refined by your generation."
"Your top military generals are all top-notch in terms of their personal strength, and your top civil servants' brain development levels are top-notch!"
"If Dahan was a country that was truly highly centralized and could perfectly mobilize the country's manpower and resources, I even think it would be impossible for me to conquer the world."
"But it's a pity that you are just a piece of sand."
"This is also the reason why I was able to completely conquer the Han Dynasty in just a few years."
Upon hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's words, Yuan Shao and others below immediately looked at each other.
To be honest, most of them couldn't understand what Zhu Yuanzhang was talking about.
Because many people present still don’t know that Zhu Yuanzhang and others come from another world.
Seeing the reactions of these people, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately shook his head and laughed.
In the past two or three months, he has relaxed a lot of restrictions on their identities. If these people are serious, they will definitely be able to find out something.
But he didn't expect that even today, these people still don't know that he comes from another world.
It can only be said that after excluding Cao Cao and others, the opponents this time are a bit rubbish!
"Since you don't understand, let's not talk about this!"
Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand, and soon several Jinyi guards came in carrying a large box.
"There's only one thing I'm calling you all here for today!"
Zhu Yuanzhang stood up and said: "Then I will discuss with you the future direction of the Han Dynasty."
"Let's talk about policies first. There are three most important policies in the future: "First, slavery must be abolished, second, land must be measured clearly, and taxes must be paid on all land."
"Third-party state-owned mineral resources must be nationalized, especially iron ore."
Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's powerful words, a large number of nobles below couldn't help but look at each other. Although there was no expression on their faces, the shock in their eyes was unstoppable.
"He actually announced it!"
"He really dared to announce it directly in front of everyone!"
"Isn't he afraid of chaos in the world?" Yuan Shao roared in his heart.
In fact, these news had already begun to circulate in Luoyang before. When Zhu Yuanzhang summoned representatives of the world's noble families to Luoyang to discuss matters, everyone had already started talking about it.
For this reason, Yuan Shao even exchanged views privately with many representatives of the gentry who came to Beijing.
But everyone felt that Zhu Yuanzhang did not dare to take such a big risk.
After all, Wang Mang has proven that this is the wrong route.
Anyone who dares to do this will only end up being torn apart by the gentry from all over the world.
After all, the world is still in the hands of the nobles.
Even the officials of the imperial court are nobles. It is simply unrealistic for you to let the children of these noble families serve the country at the expense of their own interests.
Before entering the hall today, Yuan Shao was mentally prepared. He knew that Zhu Yuanzhang would definitely attack the nobles today. He and many representatives of the nobles had already discussed it. As long as Zhu Yuanzhang did not go too far, they would give up part of it.
interests and compromised with Zhu Yuanzhang.
After all, in the past few months, everyone has been suppressed by Zhu Yuanzhang and suffered terribly.
This kind of suppression covers all aspects, from overt and covert local military conflicts to overt business competition to food. It can be said that these aristocratic families have been completely defeated.
But even so, Yuan Shao and others did not expect that Zhu Yuanzhang was really so courageous, and he actually wanted to do it all at once, and the reforms he carried out were even more radical than Wang Mang's.
This immediately made all the nobles fall silent.
They are using this method to fight against Zhu Yuanzhang.
Moreover, they are not afraid of angering Zhu Yuanzhang, because the death of one or two people in a large family cannot harm the vitality at all. The fact that they dare to come to Luoyang and enter this hall today shows that they are not people who are afraid of death in the first place.
If Zhu Yuanzhang really dares to break the rules and kill them all in this hall, he will be at odds with the world's gentry.
Even though they don't want to see such a situation, they are not afraid at all.
"Ha ha!"
Zhu Yuanzhang looked around and saw everyone's silence. He couldn't help but raise his head and burst into laughter.
Everyone suddenly became confused and didn't understand what Zhu Yuanzhang meant by his smile.
"Having said so many things that make you unhappy, let me tell you something that makes you happy!"
Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and opened the box that Jin Yiwei brought in, revealing stacks of drawings inside.
"Do you know what these are?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.
This time, without waiting for anyone to answer, he continued: "This first page of drawings records a loom that is twenty times more efficient than the loom that the big man is using now."
"And the quality of the fabric weaved is even better than the best fabrics available today."
When Zhu Yuanzhang said this, he looked around at all the aristocratic families: "Who wants this secret recipe?"
Everyone couldn't help but swallowed when they heard this.
No one wants this kind of thing!
But before anyone could speak, Zhu Yuanzhang took out a second drawing.
"This is the sugar production process. Likewise, both the efficiency and the process have been optimized to a certain extent. We can guarantee that those who get this process can make more than ten times the profit."
The sound of swallowing saliva sounded again.
Zhu Yuanzhang was too lazy to read them one by one. He took out all the drawings from the box and motioned to Jin Yiwei to pass them to everyone below.
"I'll have a showdown with you guys today!"
"Like I said, there are a hundred secret recipes for sugar making and weaving in this box. They are all advanced technologies that can greatly improve productivity. You can read the introduction in detail. After reading it, you should understand that we are not lying.
Yours."
"We will give these 100 secret recipes to the first 100 families that respond to the court's policy, and this family will receive technical support from the court to help them build corresponding workshops until the workshops become profitable."
After hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's words, the atmosphere below suddenly became a little weird.
"Ahem, Lieutenant Mingjian, our Zhuge family in Jiangbei is willing to respond to the imperial court's call!" An old man coughed softly and spoke directly.
"My Lu family is also willing!"
"And I, the Zhong family, have a duty to serve the imperial court."
Seeing the old men with dead faces just now scrambling to express their determination to him, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but smile slightly.
He knew that these guys from aristocratic families were smart people and could understand what was the best decision for their family.
In the past few months, as Ming Dynasty grain has been continuously dumped here, the price of grain has dropped again and again.
The drop in food prices directly led to a significant reduction in the value of land.
Zhu Yuanzhang once used this strategy in the Jiajing plane, and the effect was extremely good. The same is true now in the Three Kingdoms plane.
The influx of large amounts of food has made these aristocratic families who passed down the so-called farming and education miserable. The resources they now invest in farming far exceed the benefits that can be obtained from the land.
In addition, with the excavation of the Grand Canal, various handicrafts from the Ming Dynasty's national workshops poured into the entire Han Empire, directly monopolizing local trade.
Under the unscrupulous dumping of industrial products and food by a huge industrial country, there is only one fate waiting for these wealthy families, and that is complete bankruptcy.
All these actions were conducted within reasonable and legal rules.
Even those wealthy families couldn't say anything.
Of course, they also struggled and even used some extreme means, but it is a pity that whether it was overt or covert, literary or military, Zhu Yuanzhang used legal means to press them to the ground and rub them.
They tried all the methods, but still to no avail.
This is also the reason why these wealthy families responded so obediently to Zhu Yuanzhang's call and came to Luoyang this time.
They had to find out where the imperial court obtained so much food and various daily necessities.
They must also figure out why the court did this and what exactly it wanted to do?
At the same time, they also urgently need to find a new method of making money so that they can continue to maintain the family from decline.
The new technologies and new processes proposed by Zhu Yuanzhang undoubtedly answered all the doubts in their minds.
It turns out that the reason why the Zhu family can have so much food and so many cheap goods is because of these new techniques!
What surprised them even more now was that Zhu Yuanzhang was willing to share these new techniques with them, which was a real life-saving straw.
This is why they rushed to respond to Zhu Yuanzhang.
"The specific negotiations are not our responsibility!"
"After you go back, you can discuss it with your family, and then talk to Ju Hammer, an official from the relevant court department, about the matter."
Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand to interrupt the increasingly heated scene of expressing loyalty, and continued: "Now that this matter has been discussed, we can discuss the second matter."
"When you return to your family this time, you can bring back a piece of news. Each family will bring the three most outstanding disciples to study abroad with me for three years in Daming."
"In addition to your family disciples, those local officials will also be sent to the Ming Dynasty in batches for further training."
"This will help them gain a deeper understanding of the various systems of the Ming Dynasty, broaden their minds, and enable them to truly serve the court in the future."
"In the future, this will also become custom-made. The imperial court will completely abolish the system of promoting filial piety and integrity as officials. The most rigid condition for becoming an official in the imperial court is to have studied in the Ming Dynasty."
Seeing that everyone still looked confused and confused, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't bother to explain too much and just asked them to leave.
Later, someone will naturally explain to them in detail what the Ming Dynasty is, what it means to further study, and what it means to broaden one's mind.
After these people left, Zhu Biao walked in with two royal guards.
"Father, there is news from Liangzhou!" Zhu Biao said with a smile.
"Oh...!" Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but feel happy when he heard this. He took Jin Yiwei's letter, opened it and read it.
This is Lan Yu's reply.
The letter introduced in detail his reorganization of the Liangzhou cavalry during this period, the most important of which was Jia Xu's role in it.
After reading it, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but grin.
"This Jia Xu knows the current affairs. I didn't expect that he would help Lan Yu so unreservedly. This is something I didn't expect!"
If it weren't for the help of Jia Xu, a highly prestigious military advisor in the army, Lan Yu would not have been able to completely control the Liangzhou Cavalry in such a short period of time.
After all, Liangzhou is actually more complicated than Bingzhou.
In addition to Lu Bu and Ding Yuan, the most prestigious general in Bingzhou was Zhang Liao. Zhang Liao unexpectedly disappeared due to the war, which gave Zhu Di the opportunity to reform the Bingzhou army.
But although there is a war in Liangzhou now, the war is not critical. The most important thing is that there are many generals in Bingzhou besides Dong Zhuo.
For example, Hua Xiong, Guo Si, Li Jue, etc., none of these people are fuel-efficient.
If Lan Yu dares to surrender their military power, they may immediately rebel.
Apart from Dong Zhuo and Li Ru, the one who can suppress these arrogant and powerful generals is Jia Xu.
Although this person is currently unknown in the Liangzhou Army, his energy is extremely great. Lan Yu introduced this in detail in his heart.
Moreover, Lan Yu highly praised this person and said that he had great talent.
Zhu Yuanzhang naturally knew this very well. Jia Xu was a figure as famous as Zhuge Liang and Guo Jia in original history.
It would be strange if such a person didn't have some real ability.
"Tell Lan Yu to ask Jia Xu to come back to Luoyang as soon as possible after handling the affairs in Liangzhou to report on his work, and tell him directly that we will make great use of this person."